solafide (http://solafide.myopenid.com/) has left a new comment on your post "Issues in Lutheran Education | A Professional Conv...":
Money.... that's all this is about.
How about the schools that are having financial problems but the congregations are backing them anyway because it is the RIGHT thing to do? Yeah, these are the congregations where UOJ isn't taught either. So they have been really really bad.
The biggest pyramid scheme in the world is the WELS Early Childhood profession (as Dr. Jackson aptly calls it - professional diaper changers). These "teachers" get strapped with the same load of debt any other student does @ MLC. Then we wonder why nobody goes to our preschools except congregation members, since we DO have to charge uncompetitive rates.
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GJ - Some WELS congregations wreck themselves by subsidizing their non-member Poo U. clients, because they could not stay open with a couple of members' kids.
They call it "mission," which is what the LCA did in running their little guvmint agency schemes in the name of the church.
In a congregation, the insiders get nifty jobs near home, all the pay and benefits demanded by the state licensing people, so they drain the congregational treasury in order to support non-member working moms and member working moms. The red ink flows. How much does this cost the members? None of your business!
PS - Jack Cascione, "Mr. Conservative," has an entire building devote to dipping one's beak in guvmint funds.
Missouri and WELS congregations are turning schools into zoos in the name of "charter" and keeping the place open.
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I wasn't as clear as I would've liked to be in that post.
The biggest issue is that teachers in the WELS end up school with tens of thousands of student loan debt (unless their parents can afford to pay the ridiculous MLC tuition). Then congregations are forced to support these workers with a wage that not only supports them (and their families, since if you graduate MLC without proposing, you are a pariah) but also to give them enough to start paying back their degree debt, oftentimes to the tune of $25,000
or more.
Don't get me wrong, the MLC price would be good for an education actually worth something in the real world, but despite the efforts of a select few of the Studies in Educational Ministry staff (ok, more than a few... which is to say, there are SOME good Profs... well, a couple anyway... back to the point - there are some elements in the SEM program which are pushing this "public school certification" gig, which required major program rewrites and the addition of massive amounts of credits to an already high student workload), an MLC education isn't worth anything outside of the synod. I've had several classmates of mine tell me that once their 1-year assignments ran out and there were no calls to be had, most of the public schools where they have interviewed laughed in their faces when they told them they went to MLC.
"A RELIGIOUS SCHOOL! Can't have that in our secular, un-Godly public school! Take a hike!"
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